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In many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, hell is a place of eternal torment in an afterlife, often after resurrection. It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as a place of punishment.[1] Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell in another dimension or under the Earth's surface and often include...

Beppu has been named the hot-springs capital of Japan. Because of their extreme temperatures and some very unique characteristics, nine of these springs are known as the hells of Beppu
Nine Hells of Beppu
Introduction
Beppu is one of the unique places known around the world. It is also called the “city of steam”. This placed is named as the nine hells of Beppu because of their resemblance to the Buddhist vision of hell. It has nine springs (ponds) which are named the...

To Hell and Back
On the surface, Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” relates the story of a man tortured by the Spanish Inquisition. The man, remains nameless throughout the story, is condemned to death for an unknown crime and loses consciousness. He awakens in complete darkness and is frightened that he has been locked in a tomb but shortly realizes that he is probably in a dungeon. After exploring the enclosement, the prisoner collapses and falls asleep. He wakes up to an offering...

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
THE HELL DEBATE
A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO
PROFESSOR MASHALL WICKS
IN COMPLETION OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THEOLOGY 350
BY
JOHNNY CARTER
LYNCHBURG, VA
JULY 6,2012
Introduction
When trying to have a conversation about hell Hendrikus Berkhof says concerning the dominant ecclesiastical idea of hell as eternal punishment that ”there has always been a reluctance to engage in a deeper probing of this...

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Comparison/Contrast Chart
As you read, fill in the chart comparing and contrasting the two stories. At the bottom, be sure to write a paragraph explaining the meaning gained by Goethe’s allusion to the story of Job in his “Prologue in Heaven.”
Facts unique to Job
Similarities
Facts unique to Faust
God gives Satan access to Job but doesn’t allow Satan to lay a finger on Job. Satan is only allowed to demolish his family and possessions during the first test.
God...

One of the most intriguing topics of discussion among people, especially among Christians, is the issue of the entities of Heaven and Hell. Many books and essays have been written by a multitude of authors attempting to explain the supernatural concepts of Heaven and Hell in human terms. Among these many literary works, one particular essay stands out as being informative, yet direct in the style of writing. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” is the product of William Blake, who was born on...

Jennifer Broom
Essay 3
Dante’s Levels of Hell
Dante’s Inferno explains the three levels of Hell. Each level of Hell is reserved for different types of sinners. The Inferno signifies the three beasts that represent the three types of sin. The she wolf represents self-indulgence, the lion represents violence, and the leopard represents fraud. There are nine circles of Hell that are divided into these three levels. The first five circles are for the self-indulgent sins, the sixth and seventh...

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GATES OF HELL
On this earth, there are places said to be a gateway to an elaborately constructed realm of torture beneath our feet, a journey into an alternate dimension. For thousands of years people have believed this to be true. The Bible speaks of a place where we will descend, due to our choices here and because of eternal consequences thereof, therefore if you did bad actions, you will be there. Enormous torment and horror comes from the stories told of people who have had near death...

Since ancient civilizations people have been trying to explain what goes on after death. Throughout history, many cultures have had different theories about what happens. Two distinguished ideas of where people go after death are the underworld and Hell. The idea of the underworld came from the Greeks and Romans. A few famous works by the Greeks and Romans that talk about the underworld are The Iliad, The Aeneid, and, The Odyssey. A famous work that discusses Hell is Dante's Inferno. Hell is an...

Melodie Winston
Eng 432
Dr. Michael Sollars
October 31, 2011
Two Perspectives of Hell
Since the creation of human life there has been a battle of good versus evil. Before Christianity and non- religious or pagan culture believers often debated the ideology of heaven and “hell”. In defining “hell,” the Webster dictionary defines “hell” as a place or state of torment or destruction and the damned suffer eternal punishment. Hell has been an interest for many centuries, and according to some...

“Pray the Devil Back to Hell.”
Recently we watched “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” in English class. A few of the social issues addressed were: poverty, peace and women’s rights. The women were so fed up with how their president has been treating everyone. He got young children to run around with guns and hurt innocent people. Everyone was so below poverty that children were starving to death and there was nothing the parents could do because they themselves were starving. The women wanted...

﻿When Hell Sings.
Overview: An RPG (Role Playing Game) of high violence, blood, and horror-based scenes. Rated 18+ due to gore and lack of recommendation to the weak of hearts. This is a fantasy game themed in a historical and epic form, also based on imaginary facts and visions by the Game Concept Designer. It aims to deliver a good amount of action-based thriller to the gamers, and add to it the elemental factor of horror alongside the gory gothic like events.
Plot: The story follows the...

Heaven and Hell Report
Jacob Koshak
This is a story about the journey of a husband and wife, Chris and Serena Davis, as they both go through two different realms in the afterlife. The story begins with the couple returning from a Festival and being hit by an oncoming 18 wheeler truck. The impact instantly kills them both and both are then sent to be judged by God in the afterlife. Chris is an avowed Christian that is sent to heaven for being faithful to God while Serena, being a...

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Spheres of Depravities
The wind blew so hard that it was able to wake me up but in my shock, I saw myself sitting in the waiting shed in front of our school. I tried to remember what has happened a while ago and boom! I was supposed to go home when I was waiting for a bus to come, I suddenly fell asleep. But in my confusion, nobody tried to wake me up, sad isn’t it?
Instead of thinking so much for that, I hurriedly looked for my wrist watch because I removed it when I attended...

“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
(Matthew 10:28)
Dante’s Divina Commedia (The Devine Comedy) is considered to be one greatest literary expressions of the Medieval Era. In the first volume, The Inferno, we are taken on a journey to the depths of hell, so Dante may discover the meaning of life and rid himself of his worldliness. Dante attempted to discover this himself but failed....

The Smith Could Not Get Into Hell
Firstly, the smith had a contract w/ the devil that he would be the master of all masters after seven years.
When our Lord & St. Peter [assed by at the smith’s door saying “Here is the Master of all Masters”, they went in.
Before our Lord answered the smith’s question, a man passed by & he wanted the smith to shoe the horse, and amazingly our Lord succeed.
And the smith was amazed but he just boasts against our Lord.
A little while the smith’s...

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Within ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ it seems to be that Coleridge uses a lot of religious meanings throughout this poem. Coleridge uses this to explore the Mariner and his supernatural beings. Coleridge is showing the readers the gothic and mysterious feel towards this poem, also showing us the immoral and imaginative sides to this. The gothic novel/poems was popular in England in the 1790’s and came replete with castles, prisons, mysterious forces, gloomy landscapes, and sexual...

The Smith Who Could Not Get Into Hell
In the days when our Lord and St. Peter walked on earth, they came, once upon a time,
to a smith who had bargained with the devil to belong to him after seven years if during
that time he could be the master of all other smiths; and both the smith and the devil
had signed their names to this contract. That was why the smith had set up over his
smithy door a big sign which read: “Here lives the master of all masters!”
When our Lord...

The amiable Mark Twain cleverly jokes, “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company”. Although this humorous quote can tickle the imagination and produce a genial chuckle, one might discover that there is an element of truth that can be observed in this statement. Everyone dies, that is a simple fact of life that must be acknowledged. The real question that lingers in the back corners of the mind is the next step after life. Is it Heaven or Hell? Shall the damned be cursed to wander...

﻿PRESENT BIBLICAL EVIDENCE CONCERNING THE NATURE OF HELL, AND
DISCUSS ANNIHILATIONIST DOCTRINE IN THE LIGHT OF THIS EVIDENCE.
There is much in the Bible concerning hell as a place or state of being. To present Biblical evidence concerning the nature of hell this paper aims to look at characteristics of hell. This will include: looking at different names used for ‘hell’ in the Bible and whether these illustrate the nature of hell; and looking at the literal, metaphorical, final and eternal...

One may often refer to a specific event, place, or instance in time, as either heaven or hell on earth. This has become a common phrase in today's society, but many may argue its true meaning, and what heaven or hell on earth really represents or symbolizes. What qualities or characteristics ultimately decide whether something can be considered heaven, or its opposite, hell? The phrase itself is more metaphorical than literal, comparing both euphoric and joyful experiences, and dangerous and...

The Classical period, the era before the Romantics came about, was an age of reason and science. There was great emphasis on what was known and strong interpretation of what was not known and represented in the arts. Art and society was logical and governed by rules and propriety. Romanticism challenged this view and were committed to mixing everything up and putting things back together again – the key theme of unity in the arts and human life. In this poem, Blake is parodying a book from the...

﻿Seamus Degen
Mr. Kearns
English 10
10/13/14
The Abyss of Misery
Hell, described by Johnathan Edwards is “a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath.” For this average teenager in America, my definition of hell is much different than the hell of 1953’s Johnathan Edwards. For me hell is a term used to describe the unknown. What I am trying to say is that there is no hell, it is just a floating concept created and used by some people. I believe that we, as...

What happens after death has been a debated and documented topic dating back to shortly after the death of Jesus Christ. It is basically impossible to get certain evidence to back up beliefs. We are forced to rely on religious material and theologians to paint a picture for us. Even then it is hard to truly grasp what happens after death. It is proposed that you either go to heaven, or you go to hell. What do we actually know of the latter? The general consensus of society is that hell is a...

In Dante's The Inferno, the third circle of Hell is reserved for the gluttonous. After awaking from a faint, Dante soon finds himself in the third circle surrounded by the foul slush. He tells about the black snow falling into the dirty water. Dante also tells of the "stinking dirt that festered there." In this circle lives the three-headed monster Cerberus, ripping and tearing at the sinners as they lie in the sludge. The only soul named in this circle is Ciacco, nicknamed "The Hog." Ciacco was...

Sinclair and Dante: Packingtown, Chicago and the Nine Circles of Hell
Allie Sheppeck
Mr. Cosme
English 10
12 March 2012
Sinclair and Dante: Packingtown, Chicago and the Nine Circles of Hell
Chicago in 1906 was considered ‘hell.’ Is that a coincidence, or did Sinclair get inspiration from Hell itself? The workers of Packingtown may have felt that they were experiencing Dante’s Inferno and the punishments with it. Sinclair noticed this as well, as he made many allusions to Dante...

Tyler Hands
Mr. Colvard
Humanities 11CP
11/15/12
Hell’s Hero
Heroism is a word thrown around throughout any day and age but the age old question is what makes a ‘Hero’? By Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero, “The tragic hero is a character of noble stature and has greatness…the hero’s downfall, is partially hers/his own fault…the punishment exceeds the crime.” (“Aristotle” I) Throughout Milton’s Paradise Lost, he tries to justify the ways of God to Man (I. 122) and in his attempt one...

﻿Jose E EspadaOrtiz
Hist 101 A/ Mr. David Purvis
17 April 2013
Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno, originally written in Italian, is a narrative poem that opens on the evening of Good Friday in 1300. The poem takes you on a journey that documents Dante’s trip through the underworld, also known as hell to Heaven. During the poem Dante is guided by Virgil, who is the ghost of the great Roman poet, through the gates of hell then up to Heaven where he will be united with his love Beatrice.
The...

In this canto, Dante awakens to find that he is on the edge of Hell. Dante and Virgil descend into the bottomless pit. They enter the first circle of Hell, Limbo, where the souls that are sighing live. The souls include those all Unbaptized infants and those men and women who lived before the age of Christendom. I am going to talk more about those souls later.
In the previous canto, Dante fainted at moments of great intensity of feeling when he is shocked by the strange sights he sees in...

Afterlife
In philosophy, religion, mythology, and fiction, the afterlife is known as the concept of a realm, in which the necessary part of an individual's identity continues to live on after the death of the body. Belief in the afterlife, which may be naturalistic or supernatural, is in contrast to the belief in nothingness after death. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics. In many cultures, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual...

Zwetsloot 1.
Bennett Zwetsloot
British lit.
Anne Bryan
10/31
Portrayals of Satan - Hero or Villain?
In “Paradise Lost” one of the main characters, who is normally portrayed in biblical, mythical and in popular culture to be a evil and antagonistic figure; in this book is portrayed as a identifiable character and God as wrathful and distant. This makes Satan even more appealing and heroic. Why is this? Well, in the book Satan is portrayed as a rebel against a tyrant by the name of God....

Kristen Carter
Mrs. Reed
English 12A
October 19, 2012
Dante’s and Milton’s Visions of Hell
Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost both describe their unique visions of what the author thinks Hell is like. Inferno and Paradise Lost also share many similarities and differences on their views of Hell as well as describe the characteristics of Hell and the demon that rules it, Satan.
Paradise Lost and Inferno have many similarities. The most obvious similarity is their description of...

Deals with the Devil
The Devil is portrayed in many ways and throughout many different types of literature, movies, and music. The most iconic image of the devil is a red beast with horns, a pointed tail, and a pitchfork in his hand. This famous image depicts an evil monster that is in the depths of hell where he rules over the other evil beings of the world. This is only one image of many that you can find in a vast amount of literature and media both past and present. In The Devil...

﻿“Dr Faustus is an exploration of forbidden knowledge and the unknown” to what extent do you agree?
Attain forbidden knowledge- leads to downfall
At the beginning of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the reader quickly learns that the central character is highly educated and ambitious, as well as remarkably arrogant. Before we are introduced to him as he sits in his study, we are told that he is “swollen with cunning” and has grown tired of traditional studies and seeks a new darker path of study. This...

Langstrand 1
Russel Langstrand
Professor Sayle
English 101-157
9-27-11
The Grim Reaper Floats
The story Floating by Karen Brennan is about a woman who can miraculously float. She floats around the house day after day seeming to never leave. Her husband, however, seems completely unimpressed by her ability and sees her as a burden. A burden that he must feed and take care of. It is not long into the story before she finds a baby and brings it into her house. While this is happening another...

Research Paper: Divine Comedy
Epic poems were popular as early as Ancient Greece. These poems depicted the events and the ideas of the time they were written in. One such epic poem was Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Written in the early fourteenth century the Divine Comedy takes on an allegoric view of the Christian and of the political beliefs held by Dante at the time. Dante was part of a political group in Italy known as the White Guelphs, who favored the Pope as leader...

In John Milton's Paradise Lost, he tells of Satan's banishment from Heaven. He and his brigade have plotted war against God and are now doomed to billow in the fiery pits of hell. Satan is a complex character with many meaningful qualities. The relationship between Satan's qualities and Hell's atmosphere tell the reader more about why they seem to go hand in hand. Without Satan's features and Hell's tormenting aspects, the place would not be all it is.

Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was a well-respected German scholar who had grown dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge and decided to learn to practice magic. Valdes and Cornelius, the two illustrious magicians taught him the black arts, and he began his new career as a magician.
Faustus using his magic summoned a demon, Mephistophilis, ordering him to go to Lucifer...

Dante’s inferno Animated Epic Outline
I. The Arrival
a. Dante returns from the Third Crusade which has had him away from his home for several years.
b. In monologue, he has a grim feeling because of the woods. He senses someone following him
c. Upon reaching home, he finds his father dead, and his beloved Beatrice dying of a stab wound.
d. She is relieved of his return and her spirit began to ascend to heaven but Lucifer snatched and dragged her into the gates of hell....

Poem "Lucifer in the Starlight": New Meanings and Ideas
Examining a poem in detail can bring out new meanings and ideas. By
careful analysis, the full beauty of the poem can be appreciated. The poem
"Lucifer in Starlight (p. 959)", by George Meredith, can be analyzed to refine
the authors purpose, by examining every subtle hint, every possibility, for a
deeper theme. Also, "deciphering" formal literary techniques such as metaphor,
connotation, and symbolism is the key to unlock other...

Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus, a talented German scholar who belittles the limits of human knowledge, believes that he has learned all that can be learned by conventional means. What is left for him, he thinks, but magic? He is offered a choice of Christian conscience by a good angel, and the path to damnation by an evil angel. Two fellow scholars, Valdes and Cornelius, teach him the fundamentals of black magic. Eventually, Faustus summons the devil Mephistopheles and the terms of their pact...

Paradise Lost
The Character of Satan
Most readers of “Paradise Lost” by Milton, consider Satan to be the hero, or protagonist, of the story, because he struggles to overcome his own doubts and weaknesses and accomplishes his goal of corrupting humankind. This goal, however, is evil, and Adam and Eve are the moral heroes at the end of the story, as they help to begin humankind’s slow process of redemption and salvation. Satan is far from being the story’s object of admiration, as most...

Divine Justice
In the beginning of Canto III, Dante and Virgil are about to enter Hell itself. Dante is hesitant about the odyssey ahead because of the cryptic message inscribed on the Gates of Hell. As Dante voyages across the circles of Hell, the different circles show Dante that justice was the main concern for each Circle. Consequently, justice is seen as a prevalent theme throughout the Cantos in the Inferno.
As Dante proceeds to enter the vestibule that leads to Hell, he...

The forest setting helps support the theme because it adds to the theme of isolation, especially when words associated with evil are used to describe it
The fact that the story is set in the Salem Village builds to the theme about evil and isolation because it adds to the ideas of evil and intolerance that characterized the Salem Village.
For instance, the path through the forest that he had chosen was “a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest… and closed...

If there is one constant in this world, it would surely be death. Dying is an unavoidable part of life. Indeed, everything that lives will at sometime die. The fear of death is held by everyone. Perhaps it is the correlation of death with pain or the unknown state of the human consciousness after death, maybe a combination of both, that creates this fear. The fear felt is undoubtedly universal, however, the ways in which it is dealt with are varied and diverse. The concept of human mortality and...

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Dante, after finding himself amid the dark woods, follows his poetic hero Virgil as he guides Dante towards Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven--the roads away from the savage beasts that blocked his way in Canto I.
In Canto II, Dante calls to the Muses for help. He was suddenly overcome with fear that he may not be able to survive the journey. He questioned his worthiness to take the journey and compared himself to that of Aeneas, the central character in Virgil's Odyssey, and St. Paul: two...

﻿Quiz 8 Study Guide
Towns: pp. 809–853
Be familiar with the prominent perspectives on hell during the period of the church fathers and the Middle Ages. Pg 812-814
Church Fathers
Didn’t alter view of Christ
Eternal judgement is one of 7 fundamentals of early church (Hebrews 6:1-2)
No apostle neglects mention of Hell
Doctine endless punishment for wickedprevalent opinion
Major church fathers uniform in insistence upon doctrine of endless punishment for wicked
Middle Ages
Neglected, but...

Greed is the attempt to get more of what somebody already has and try to get everything they want as much as possible to fulfill there personal materialistic wants. In the story "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, some characters portray their obsession with greed. The main character, Tom and his wife compete with each other to see who can obtain the most materials without sharing it with each other. Tom Walkers greed leads to many obstacles, and eventually ending up to his demise....

Dante's Inferno Vs. Milton's Paradise Lost
The two stories, Inferno by Dante and Paradise Lost by Milton, were written about the biblical hell and its keeper: Satan. Both of these authors had different views about the hell and Satan.
In Paradis Lost, Milton wrote that Satan used to be an angel of God. The devil believed that he was equal to the Lord and he wanted to be greater than him. For this, God banished him to hell. Milton's physical description of Satan is interesting. Since he...

﻿Bailey September 11, 2014
English 12
Everyman Essay
The Moral of Everyman, an English morality play, is an symbol of death and the fate of the soul. Beckoned by Death, Everyman calls on Fellowship, Good-Deeds, and Strength for help, but they desert him. Only Good-Deeds and Knowledge remain faithful and lead him toward salvation. Everyman symbolizes, in a worldly sense, every man. The play unfolds as he wrestles with his own qualities, whether they are good or evil. The way...

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Mephistopheles is a striking central character in the play ‘Doctor Faustus’, written by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. His role in this tragic play is ultimately to aid Faustus’ downfall from a renowned scholar to foolhardy prey of Lucifer. However, Mephistopheles’ motives are perceptibly ambiguous throughout ‘Doctor Faustus’; he seemingly alternates between a typically gleeful medieval devil, and a romantically suffering fallen angel....

The word Hell, or in Italian, Inferno means the abode of Satan and the forces of evil. It is where sinners suffer eternal punishment. Dante was exiled by Pope Boniface, which led him to write this poem, Dante’s Inferno. He wrote the poem because he was exiled and he had nothing left in his life, so he just wrote to express that he was betrayed by his own country, not him betraying his country. Since he was betrayed by his own country, he became a nomad and has been a beggar ever since.
A...

THEO202_B20_201220 Short Essay #4 Short Essay On Eschatology: The Destiny of the Unsaved One of the questions that have continuously troubled the mind of man is the question of what happens to us after death. Does the human soul/spirit continue to live after physical death? What is our final destiny after physical death? Is heaven and hell that is so much talked about by preachers real? Would a loving God really torment people forever? These are the questions I will attempt to answer from a...

Early Romantics
William Blake's writings were vivid and imaginative. He used strong themes, and he had a grasp on language that many people don't have. Blake's writings open the reader to his beliefs, outlook, and ideas through his dramatic use of words. By simply dissecting “The Tyger” and the “The Sick Rose”, Blake’s use of colored vocabulary and comparisons tell a story amongst another story.
William Blake's poem “The Tyger” is a poem that alludes to the darker side of creation. He suggests...

The thirteenth canto of Dante’s The Inferno clearly depicts several of the different themes that can be seen throughout the poem. Some of these themes are the idea of contrapasso, or the notion that the punishment dealt fits the crime committed, the portrayal of Hell as being devoid of hope, and the importance of fame. The images and language Dante uses to describe his experiences in the middle ring of the seventh circle of Hell, which houses the suicides, provide the reader with the feeling...

Imperfect Punishments
Imagine a place where tyrants stand up to their ears in boiling blood, the gluttonous experience monsoons of human filth, and those who commit sins of the flesh are blown about like pieces of paper in a never-ending wind storm. Welcome to Dante's Inferno, his perspective on the appropriate punishments for those who are destined to hell for all eternity. Dante attempts to make the punishments fit the crimes, but because it is Dante dealing out the tortures and not God, the...

Faustuss RepentFaustus did not repent even though he had many chances. He claims that the devil was Holding his hands down when he wished to raise them in praise to god, among other actions. He doesnt seriously think about repenting until the last hour that he has on earth, asking forgiveness while Satan and his helpers tear him to pieces. Faustus doesnt repent because of fear, uncertainty, and pure ignorance.
First of all, Faustus wants power and knowledge that he will receive from his pact...

The narrator's first cat's name Pluto is that of the Roman God of the underworld. Pluto contributes to a strong sense of Hell and may even symbolize the Devil himself. Onyx cats have long been connected to bad luck and misfortune. The narrator's wife even joking mentions that black cats are said to be witches in guise. From this one can assume that a horrible thing will be bestowed upon the narrator, though one might believe it will be directly from Pluto, it happens indirectly. This can be tied...

Brent Fairchild
Professor Wilkie
Humanities 220
4/25/13
Dante’s Inferno Essay
The way that Dante portrays Hell in the Inferno is very specific and filled with loads of lots of imagery. The book uses lots of figurative language, while being complimented with the very intricate descriptions of the physical world. The logic of the structure of Hell, as well as the nature of God’s action for placing people there for their crimes, shows Dante’s great imagination. Dante’s work is not anything of...

In Washington Irving's short story "The Devil and Tom Walker", the author depicts the main character as a very stereotypical character with little individuality. Tom's actions are easily predicted and his eventual downfall is used to illustrate the story's moral.
Tom Walker is a very typical one-dimensional character. He is purely evil with not a bit of goodness. From the very beginning of the story, the reader is shown that he is a lying, cheating, conniving miser who cares for no one (not...

In the play Doctor Faustus the main character sells his soul to the devil and later dies and is sent to hell. A question that comes to mind when reading this book is, "Does Doctor Faustus have a Christian moral?" Even though he is persuaded to sell his soul to the devil he still may have some Christian beliefs. Some of the dialogue in the play gives some signals that tell the reader if Faustus has a Christian moral. The Cultural Studies method is shown in this paper because we are talking about...

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“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” (Canto I). These opening words of the Italian Dante Alighieri’s Inferno set a scene of a man, Dante, lost in his own God-given life path. From here on, Dante embarks on a journey of staggering significance: he is granted a tour of Hell. Dante records this expedition in the Inferno, but unfortunately, the piece of literature is not entirely factual. Dante creates this...

﻿ENGL 2030 Dante’s Inferno Study Questions for Circles 8/9 Fall 2013
Why is a frozen lake an appropriate place for the punishment of traitors in the lowest circle of hell? Explain the suffering of opposites for treachery.
The Giants and Lucifer are proud figures who appear divided, with only the top halves of their bodies visible to Dante and Virgil. Similarly, half the bodies of Cassius, Judas, and Brutus are inside Lucifer's massive jaws. Count Ugolino, on the other hand, is...

典he Tyger by William Blake is a beautifully written poem that brings forth many philosophical questions about the origin of the animal known as a tiger. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience and through close reading of the poem, deeper meaning is uncovered behind the literary piece. The poem consists of six quatrains or what is known as four-line stanzas and contains along with that, two couplets or rhyming lines. Throughout the reading of the poem, the poem has...

Pinkie and Evil
Graham Greene, a devote Catholic and author of Brighton Rock, centers his novel on the religious, metaphysical concepts of good verses evil. We, as readers, are overwhelmed with the presence of evil and its power to manipulate the good, as shown especially through the protagonist, Pinkie. It is ironic that Pinkie is Catholic, for he embodies everything that is evil, sinister, and hellish. Pinkie, a gang leader, a sociopath, and a teenage devil, exemplifies evil within the...

Erik Caballero
Mrs. Powalisz
AP English
22 November 2010
Othello as a Tragic Hero
According to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero, is a man of high-ranking official who rose to a high position then plummeted to utter death and desolation, can be coined to the character in Shakespeare’s play, Othello, Othello. It is often considered that some tragic heroes bring upon themselves their own downfall, whereas some heroes are pawns of Fate. In this play, it can be argued that Othello did...

﻿Dr. Faustus Essay
Although Dr. Faustus embodies as versatile, a master of a multitude of arts, his thirst for knowledge soon overcomes his better judgment, portraying him as an overreacher, and landing him into an irreversibly tangled mess. Dr. Faustus possesses the qualities of a Renaissance man, a man who desires to gain power through knowledge. Denouncing the religion of God, Faustus declares, “’Tis magic, magic, that hath ravished me!” (Marlowe 8), exemplifying how his need for power makes...

Analysis Paper One
Happy endings are what we believe to be a point in a story in which the character or charactes are resuced from trouble and brought to triumph. However, what British novelist Fay Weldon suggests, is that maybe all an ending needs to be is happy, is not to be resuced from trouble, but to acknowledge the trouble, grasp it and to embrace our humanism. In Doctor Faustus, Faustus is a symbol of that humanism, and his quest for power is a symbol of the trouble every story...

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Dante - The author and protagonist of Inferno; the focus of all action and interaction with other characters. Because Dante chose to present his fictional poem as a record of events that actually happened to him, a wide gulf between Dante the poet and Dante the character pervades the poem. For instance, Dante the poet often portrays Dante the character as compassionate and sympathetic at the sight of suffering sinners, but Dante the poet chose to place them in Hell and devised...

Thinking of Dr. Faustus
Dr. Faustus is the greatest of Christopher Marlove's plays, in which the old German legend is freely reshaped. Faustus is a great scholar who has a strong desire to acquire all kinds of knowledge.
He is bored of his present study on the academic curriculum and turn to black magic. By conjuration he calls up Mephistopheles, the Devil's servant. Faustus makes a bond to sell his soul to the Devil in return for twenty-four years of life in which he may have the services...

﻿Kelsey Nagy
Philosophy 101
Bill Haley
28 March 2014
Socrates
Socrates believed that philosophy prepares the soul for the separation of the body when it is time for us to die. Also, he insisted that death is not necessarily a bad thing. Socrates had two views on death, that is to be nonexistent or something happens to the soul at death and gets transported to another world. I disagree with his opinions on death because he says that death is like a “dreamless sleep” and he does not...

A Poison Tree by William Blake - Analysis
Over the course of the poem, anger is developed as a poisoned tree. In the first three stanzas, the metaphor of anger as a tree is developed using imagery that is suggestive of trees. In these stanzas, the development of anger from a seed to a tree is shown as it grows, it is watered and sunned, or nurtured and allowed to thrive, and eventually bears fruit, “an apple bright.” Consonance is used in one instance to control the tone and mood of the...

Most Christians these days see every sin as equally bad. In other words, no one sin is worse or should draw worse punishment than another. In Dante's The Inferno, however, this is not the case. In The Inferno, the deeper one delves into Hell, the worse the sin that has been committed. The punishments that the souls incur are representative of the sins they committed in their corporeal state of being. Sins that affect others are considered worse then those that only affect ones self by Dante. The...

On the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300, Dante is travelling through a forest, when he gets lost. In the morning, he finds a mountain and tries to climb it, but is stopped by a lion, a wolf, and a leopard. The spirit of the poet Virgil appears and offers to take him to the top of the mountain to Heaven when his love, Beatrice, is, but the way first leads through Hell.
Virgil and Dante enter through the gates of Hell and see a crowd of people along the banks of the river. Virgil tells...

Corey McCloud
Cooley
AP English
30 November 2012
Paradise Lost – Book 2
So he with difficulty and labour hard
Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee;
But hee once past, soon after when man fell,
Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain
Following his track, such was the will of Heav'n (Milton 1021-1025)
As I read it, this section says that God damned Satan to Hell and then forced Sin and Death to follow him, though he had no memory of how they were created, to remind him of his evils....

Doctor Faustus
Central Conflict:
Doctor Faustus is unsatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge so he decides that he wants to learn how to practice magic. With the help of his friend Valdes and Cornelius teaching him magic, he starts off his career by summoning a devil named Mephastophilis. He sends Mephastophilis back to his master, Lucifer, with the offer of his soul in exchange for 24 years of service from the devil. Mephastophilis returns with the news that Lucifer...

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, released in Japan as simply Devil May Cry 3, is an action game that was developed and published by Capcom, released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2 (also ported to the PC in 2006). The game is a prequel to the original Devil May Cry, and is the first game in the series storyline's chronological order.
Set in modern times in an enchanted tower named Temen-ni-gru, the story centers on the dysfunctional relationship between Dante and his brother Vergil. The...

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Plato’s philosophy of death: critical analysis
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
-Plato
Nowadays, many died because of accident, by sickness, and by drowning. Others by old age, murder, suicide, starvation, overeating, and some died while still in the womb. Some died with open minds in surrendering their lives with peace of hearts. But many people are wondering, what really happens when a human dies, and what the purpose of death is. Does it need some preparation,...

The Devil and Tom Walker character analysis
From the beginning of time the devil has been known to trick weak people. Old Scratch, Belcebub, Lucifer or simply the devil has been the antagonist for all religious beliefs in the whole planet. The story “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irvin shows how this abominable creature, the devil, tricks people in order to get their soul. Throughout times people have believed that the devil gave temptations in order to fall for them so...

The Inferno is more than just a fictional story about someone traveling through life. It is actually more like an autobiographical journey of life through its author, Dante Alighieri’s. He basically wrote with the personal purpose of recording where all of the people he came in contact within his life, will go when they die. This could be one of three places; Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven. He went on to design specific, fitting punishments or rewards based on each person’s life. Dante then tied...

﻿Relationship between Faustus and Mephastophilis
Compiled by- Aaisha Bagban University of Pune, India
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus is a play in which the protagonist Dr. Faustus who is an excellent scholar from Wittenberg , Germany sells his soul to the Devil for power and knowledge. In the end, his curiosity for knowledge and his greed for wealth...

Aristotle once wrote “The excess of virtue is a vice” and nothing illustrates this lesson quite as clearly as Dante’s Inferno, as he travels through the depths of hell and learns of the unfortunate souls who reside there - some of who knowingly committed the most heinous and crimes against humanity, but also those who simply took the virtues they were taught to live by to unreasonable lengths until they became their very undoing.
A section of hell has been reserved for those who were...

Washington Irving has taken a German story passed down from generation to generation, and brought it to American soil by placing its setting during the late 1700's in New England. "The devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving contains many unrealistic events, stereotypes, and a few lessons and truths about life.
Throughout the folktale "The Devil and Tom Walker" there are many unrealistic events. Most are related to the bargaining between Tom and the devil. This in itself is a extremely...

We in the twentieth century would be much more hard-pressed
to define evil than would people of either Chaucer's or Dante's
time. Medieval Christians would have a source for it -- Satan --
and if could easily devise a series of ecclesiastical checklists
to test its presence and its power. In our secular world, evil
has come down to something that hurts people for no explicable
reason: the bombing of the...

While I was looking back through all the freewrites I had written about Dante's The Divine Comedy I realized how much I had really progressed in my understanding of the poem itself, and in doing so had really been given a whole new view on religion and spirituality. The freewrite that showed this growth to me the most was the second one we had written after reading Canto's III and IV. I had a rather strong reaction to the ideas presented to me within those sections that dealt with the concept of...

﻿David Cano
3/1/2014
ENC1102
Arnold Friend = Devil?
One of the big mysteries In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” Is Arnold Friend the devil or not. Arnold Friend portrays the devil in many ways. In the story, Arnold friend is the devil, he went to Connie’s house and tries to get her to go for a ride with him and his friend Elli Oscar so, he can rape and kill her. Arnold Friend is none other than the devil himself, which shows in his appearance, his speech,...

Do I know where the cafeteria is? Of course I know where the cafeteria is. I have been here for almost a decade, but you still ask me the same questions, about me knowing where the cafeteria is. Since I have been in this place in nearly a decade I know it better than many others. I am not crazy, it is the one thing I have to tell you people most. The rest of the people in here those are crazy. They are crazy as a ride through hell. I am only kept in this place because there is nowhere else to...

In Friedrich Durrenmatt’s play, The Visit, a great deal of literary feature is employed in order to elicit critical thinking from the audience. Durrenmatt implements the demonic motif to make the audience contemplate the play’s allegorical relevance to The Bible, as he uses Claire Zachanassian’s representation of the devil and juxtaposes it with Alfred Ill’s representation of Jesus Christ, the Savior.
The character of Claire Zachanassian is utilized by Durrenmatt to represent the devil. Her red...

﻿ Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. Inferno is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is described as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Because Dante is an educated Christian, he uses mythological references to...

In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” Joyce Carol Oats uses characterization including methods such as symbolism and allusions to develop her characters, and thus establish her theme of the cross roads Connie faces in her transition from the innocence of her adolescence to the impurity of adulthood facilitated by the antagonist, Arnold Friend.
From the beginning of the story, the reader sees Connie has a strong desire to make her early transition into adulthood....

Poetry Analysis of
“Death is a Dialogue between” by Emily Dickinson
Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
"Dissolve" says Death—The Spirit "Sir
I have another Trust"—
Death doubts it—Argues from the Ground—
The Spirit turns away
Just laying off for evidence
An Overcoat of Clay.
Emily Dickinson’s poem “Death is a Dialogue” depicts the conversation a person’s spirit has with death once the person’s body dies. In this poem death tells the person’s spirit that he is...

Critical Analysis: Paradise Lost
In "Book I" of Paradise Lost, John Milton describes Satan's reaction to the realities of Hell after he is banished from Heaven. After Satan and his followers have been thrown to Hell, it quickly becomes apparent the torture and torment they will face.
In this passage, Satan, who is unable to accept his place at the foot of God, unsuccessfully attempts to overtake the throne of God. His view of having "equaled" God and having the "ambitious aim" of...

This large painting by William Bouguereau depicts a scene from Dantes inferno.
It is set on the banks of the river Styx which formed the boundary between earth and the under world. Dante is with Virgil who is his guide through the nine circles of Hell. The circles are concentric, representing a gradual increase in wickedness, and culminating at the centre of the earth, where the devil himself is held in bondage.
This painting depicts Dante in the fifth circle which represents Wrath and...

Apostrophe to Helen
Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus shows the tragic doom of a budding scholar, who was highly efficient in all the field of studies and also a young aspirant, who had the immense potentiality to rise high above all other existing academicians of all times. It is fair to say that Faustus represents the quintessential Renaissance man - it is his thirst for knowledge that drives him into his pact with Mephostophiles. Faustus had that unquenchable thirst for knowledge and in his attempt...

The afterlife is where all the souls go after their host dies, but it all depends on what that soul during its life to determine where it stay forever. The Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Mayans all believed that once you die your soul goes to a place either a paradise or hellish place. They were all separated by hundreds of years and were thousands of miles away on different continents. Oddly they all share the same beliefs on the afterlife.
The Ancient Greeks believed that the soul good or...

Madeleine Calhoun
First Year Seminar
Professor Scheible
11/24/12
The Existence of Pathos in Dante’s Inferno
The strength of emotions drives many unjustifiable actions of humanity. The human race is subjected to feelings of pity and compassion. Yet, when did we obtain these potentially harmful yet also helpful feelings? Why do we have these uncontrollable emotions? And what can these feelings possibly contribute to an individual, or a society? There is much contemplation about the roles...

What is the real hell in Tomorrow, When the War Began; the new world or the descent of Satan’s steps?
We all know Hell is a term used for the place where the deceased go down in the underworld to be punished for their sins. When we talk about Hell, it’s used as an expression to describe some kind of intense feeling. Hell can be the destruction of mankind or it can be a place that has been destroyed. In the novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, Hell is used to describe the new world that Ellie and...

Life after Death.
Daniel Yashinsky 16/09/2011
Death is a word that someone never likes to hear but questions that always come to mind are what happens after we die. Many people believe in different situations but ultimately I assume that the way we live out our life will determine our results in the afterlife. Almost like being punished in a sense it’s the way of the society to believe in morals such as right and wrong. Who or what judges the fact of where we go. Are these theories accurate...

1. Analyze the satire revealed in the bawdy tale of Alibech and Rustico ("putting the devil in hell") from The Decameron. Of what does it make fun? What moral or lesson does it teach?
The Decameron is a comedy that can can be taken in a variety of ways. It is a story of a
The serious message underlying the comedy is Don't entertain temptation! Monks practice religious asceticism. This describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various worldly pleasures. They practice strict...